Faculty

Creating positive social change

At the School of Social Transformation we aren’t confined to just one academic discipline. We’re the social justice champions leading our fields, the experts people turn to for answers to tough questions, those doing the work and engaging with the community to make a positive difference.

Our 50 faculty members include White House Champions of Change, Carnegie Fellows, Fulbright Scholars, and Regents, President’s and University professors. But we’re so much more than that. We’re working with 17 community organizations in Maricopa County to improve lives. We’re preserving Civil War-era cabins in Virginia. We’re creating models to improve access to water in Brazil.

We don’t just prepare our students to creatively engage with a global society, we’re working with them for justice and social change.

Research

While our faculty are active researchers in the social sciences, humanities, and education, our focus is on projects with direct impact on our communities and individual lives.

We’ve received grants from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation as well as U.S. Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services and more to bring our work out into the world.

Most diverse faculty at ASU

In the School of Social Transformation we don’t just study diversity and complexity, we embrace it. Fifty-eight percent of our faculty identify as non-white, more than any other school or department at ASU.

This diversity creates an inclusive space for our students and scholars to discuss issues grounded in the real world in a thoughtful, welcoming environment.